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swimming about in deep water like a 

 whale, with his mouth wide open catching 

 flies! But that memorable passage ex- 

 pressive of the author's preference for 

 speculation over science was withdrawn 

 in the second edition, and has not, I 

 believe, appeared since.* 



The most crushing blow which the 

 Evolution theory ever received was in 

 the brilliant address of Dr. Virchow, 

 Professor of Pathology in the University 

 of Berlin, at the Munich Conference 

 of German professors (September, 1877), 

 when the opinion of the greatest living 

 authority on the subject was thus de- 

 livered " As a matter of fact," said the 

 learned Virchow, "we must positively 

 recognize that as yet there exists a sharp 

 line of demarcation between man and 

 the ape. We cannot teach we cannot 

 pronounce it to be a conquest of science, that 

 man descends from the ape or from any other 

 animal whatever" 



* See Appendix W. 



